The 1st Blockchain Powered, Crypto Specific Smartphone Finally Launches This Past Week: The Sirin Labs Finney.
Many of us have waited and waited on this to finally launch for a year or more I would say.
The rumours started swirling around 18 mths ago on 2-3 blockchain based phones, and now the first of them is finally here!!
After months of expectation and one of the top-five biggest ICOs of 2017, on Nov. 29 Sirin Labs has launched Finney, the 'world's first' blockchain smartphone. Yet, even with the endorsement of football legend Lionel Messi and a $157.8 million token sale behind it, the $999 device has stepped into uncharted territory, where its built-in cold storage wallet and DApp ecosystem will have to contend with the dominance of Apple and Samsung — as well as the Exodus 1, a rival blockchain smartphone from HTC.
Most of Finney's key features had already been announced prior to Thursday's launch: The smartphone comes equipped with an embedded cold storage wallet that's physically separate from the main hardware; its Sirin OS is a "Google-certified" mod of the Android operating system; it boasts AI-driven, cyber-threat detection; and it enables the direct exchange of selected cryptocurrencies (Ethereum, Bitcoin and Sirin Labs Token) without the need to use a centralized exchange.
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Another, more predictable facet of Sirin Labs' plan to attract a mass market is that Finney comes with all the specs and functionality you'd expect from a 2018 smartphone. The phone has a 12MP (megapixel) rear camera, an 8MP selfie camera, as well as a 6-inch touchscreen, 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage memory. This puts it at least in the same league as this year's iPhone XS, which also has a 12MP rear camera (albeit a dual one), but actually a smaller, 5.5-inch screen, 4GB of RAM and a 7MP selfie camera.
The fact that it boasts performance superiority in several departments here would help make the phone desirable to someone who may have been thinking about buying a separate hardware wallet and an iPhone XS (or Samsung Galaxy S9) — and just as importantly, so too will the ease with which its main features (the hardware wallet and DApp store) can be used.
"The Finney phone is a one-stop shop," declared Sirin Labs' co-founder and co-CEO Moshe Hogeg during his presentation. "Before the Finney, you needed a ledger, you needed a computer, you needed wallet software and then you needed to go to an exchange, and then you could convert. The Finney does all of this in one phone."
By having a cold storage wallet, a Token Conversion Service and crypto-exchange apps on a single device, Hogeg affirmed that Finney will take "a huge step forward in bridging the gap between the blockchain economy and the consumer market," making the world of crypto more accessible to an audience that doesn't necessarily have the time or inclination to sign up for Kraken or Coinbase on their PCs and then buy a Ledger or Trezor wallet.
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True enough, this was long awaited news.
I think many had even forgotten these were coming! I did not but things slowed down in the bear market the last 10 mths or so.
Thanks for the update on things.
I am really glad this is finally out, this is new ground for a few things at once, hope it gains attn and traction, the fact that soccer star Messi is their brand guy is going to be a huge thing.
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